[rsync]

"... bad aluminium body ..."

Would you elaborate ?

I believe there are a few all-metal laptops competing in the marketplace but was unaware they were actually better than the apple laptops ... what all aluminum laptops are better and how are they better ?

[bigyabai]

I know multiple people with Macbook contact phobia from the static charge the chassis builds up.

[swiftcoder]

This is trivially solvable by using the 3-prong plug on the power adapter, btw. That grounds the laptop properly, no more charge build-up.

(unfortunately in the EU they only provide the 3-prong plug in the long-tail variant, which is kind of a bummer)

[mgaunard]

why would you want a laptop being made of metal?

it's a stylistic choice, not a logical one.

[kstenerud]

Because the body is the heat sink, so it has no fan.

That alone is already very compelling for me (no noise, no fan to wear out). Then on top of that it has:

* Amazing battery life

* Great performance

* The best trackpad in the world

* Bright, crisp screen

The only downsides are the lack of upgradability and the annoying OS, but at least it's UNIX.

[mgaunard]

I just turn off trackpads, I'm not interested in that kind of input device, and any space dedicated to one is wasted to me. I use nibs exclusively (which essentially restricts me to Thinkpads).

My arms rest on the body, the last thing I want is for it to be a material that leeches heat out of my body or that is likely to react with my hands' sweat and oils.

[anjel]

> and the annoying OS

"...It's just a flesh wound..."

[iknowstuff]

It feels great and it's recyclable.

[browningstreet]

Strawman. Because Apple designed it well. Metal’s not an issue. My legacy 2013 MacBook Air still looks and feels and opens like new.

I was looking at Thinkpad Auras today. There are unaligned jutting design edges all over the thing. From a design perspective, I’ll take the smooth oblong squashed egg.

Every PC laptop I’ve touched feels terrible to hold and carry. And they run Windows, and Linux only okay. Apple MacBooks are a long mile better than everything else and so I don’t care about upgraded memory — buy enough ram at purchase time and you don’t have to think about it again.

Memory upgrades aren’t priced super well, granted, but I could never buy HP Dell Lenovo ever again. They’re terrible. I’ve had all of them. Ironically the best device I’ve had from the other side was a Surface Laptop. But I don’t do Microsoft anymore. And I don’t want to carry squeaky squishy bendy plastic.

Most of all, I’m never getting on a customer support call with the outsourced vendors that do the support for those companies ever ever ever again. I’ll take a visit to an Apple store every day of the week.

[esseph]

I've had 4 Lenovos and out of the Asus, Dell, HP, Panasonic, and Sony laptops I've had, they always seem to have excellent Linux support.

[browningstreet]

My team is going through a lot of pain right now with new Lenovo Aura laptops. But I haven’t had a chance to Linux-ify them.

[esseph]

T series or x13 in particular.

Not sure about anything else, have ONLY used those.